Have children adapted to their mothers working, or was adaptation unnecessary? Cohort effects and the relationship between maternal employment and child well-being
Have children adapted to their mothers working, or was adaptation unnecessary? Cohort effects and the relationship between maternal employment and child well-being
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DOI：
10.1016/j.ssresearch.2011.10.004
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发表时间：
2012-03-01
影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
Brauer, Jonathan R.
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作者：
Wills, Jeremiah B.;Brauer, Jonathan R.
根据之前的理论和实证研究，我们认为母亲就业对儿童福祉的影响因出生群体而异。我们通过分析来自全国青少年纵向调查的儿童及其母亲样本的纵向数据来调查这种可能性。我们将一系列年龄、队列和母亲就业交互项引入到预测儿童福祉的多层次模型中，以评估早期和当前母亲就业的潜在短期或长期影响是否因出生队列而异。结果表明，除了少数例外，无论出生队列如何，母亲就业在很大程度上对儿童福祉无关。例如，较早出生的孩子可能会因母亲有工作而经历长期的积极影响；然而，随着最近的队列中孕产妇就业变得更加普遍，这些有益的影响似乎消失了。我们讨论这些发现的理论和方法论意义。 (C) 2011 Elsevier Inc. 保留所有权利。
Drawing on previous theoretical and empirical work, we posit that maternal employment influences on child well-being vary across birth cohorts. We investigate this possibility by analyzing longitudinal data from a sample of children and their mothers drawn from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. We introduce a series of age, cohort, and maternal employment interaction terms into multilevel models predicting child well-being to assess whether any potential short-term or long-term effects of early and current maternal employment vary across birth cohorts. Results indicate that maternal employment largely is inconsequential to child well-being regardless of birth cohort, with a few exceptions. For instance, children born in earlier cohorts may have experienced long-term positive effects of having an employed mother; however, as maternal employment became more commonplace in recent cohorts, these beneficial effects appear to have disappeared. We discuss theoretical and methodological implications of these findings. (C) 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.